It’s day nine of Joseph Mann’s expedition
into the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. He’s been following the tracks of a mysterious
creature - a massive, anomalous beast that has been spotted in the snowy wastes. As he follows the tracks he sees something…
it’s his own tent. But he had been walking for days after leaving
this camp, how was he back here after only a few hours? Time and distance were starting to feel off,
like they were stretched out and folded over into knots. Maybe he was confused about the tracks. Maybe he hadn’t been chasing after something,
but following the tracks of something that had been chasing him. Maybe… he was wrong about everything. Hi! I’m Dr. Bob, and this is SCP-2764, also
known as... The Eldritch Antarctic. SCP-2764 is a massive biological entity, standing
over 380 meters tall and estimated to weigh over 150,000 metric tonnes. It possesses around 80 tentacle-like arms
that it uses for movement and simple actions like grasping objects. It also has what looks to be a head with four
eyes. SCP-2764 possesses a number of anomalous properties
including the ability to communicate telepathically with humans, though the language used changes
based upon the person who is receiving its messages. Strangely, this communication appears to go
one way only, as it has never demonstrated that it understands any attempts to communicate
back to it. Its physical state has also been observed
to be quite anomalous. Its size does not follow normal Euclidean
geometry, with the creature appearing many times larger or smaller than it should based
on the viewer’s distance from SCP-2764. There appears to be a critical zone lying
roughly 50 kilometers away from the creature that stretches around it in a circle. As you move away from the creature and approach
this line, SCP-2764 actually appears to grow larger, until the critical zone is passed
at which point it begins to shrink as you move farther and farther away. Its body has a number of other strange properties
too. Its tentacle-like arms rapidly translocate
around its body at random intervals, jumping around all over its body creating a twitchy,
writhing mass that makes it impossible to count how many tentacles it actually possesses. But perhaps strangest of all is that not only
do the creature's arms seem to break the laws of physics by jumping around its body, but
so too does the entirety of SCP-2764. It’s been observed to spontaneously relocate
itself to different places, as if it is flickering in and out of existence. It appears that the creature flickers into
a new place like this at random intervals, but it may be following some yet unknown rules,
as it has never been seen appearing more than 25 kilometers away from where it was last
seen and always flickers back to its original location within 48 hours. SCP-2764 was first discovered by a civilian
team that was conducting detailed surveys of the Antarctic landscape. The team observed the creature and were immediately
alarmed by its strange properties, especially its bizarre geometric qualities. They returned to their home base and described
what they had seen to a colleague, who was actually an SCP Foundation researcher in charge
of investigating anomalous activity in Antarctica. This researcher sent word back to his superiors
who activated Mobile Task Force Eta-5, also known as the Jaeger Bombers. Eta-5 administered amnestics to the survey
team and any other exposed civilians before setting up a perimeter around SCP-2764. What they would eventually learn was that
the perimeter they established was far too close. In his investigation logs, MTF Eta-5 Commander
Joseph Mann noted that he immediately experienced strange anomalous effects, such as how the
creature seemed to shrink the closer he got to it and the strange voices in his head. His curiosity soon got the better of him,
and he decided to do some of his own research into the entity before the rest of the SCP
Foundation scientists and guards arrived to take over the investigation. Mann gathered a couple volunteers who were
also curious about the nature of the anomaly and set out on expedition to gather more information. Just as they had experienced before, the more
they walked towards the creature, the more it appeared to shrink in size. They also made note of strange prints in the
snow. At first they looked to be human prints, but
then seemed to change into something that looked as if a squid had pulled itself onto
the land and was dragging itself through the snow. After several days, the whole team was hearing
voices. They also realized they had left their tissue
analyzer back at a previous camp and would have to back track to retrieve it. As they moved away from the creature they
expected it to now increase in size, but it didn’t, it stayed the same. Either something had changed about the anomaly
or SCP-2764 was moving towards them. After recovering the tissue analyzer, they
continued on towards the creature again. Commander Mann began to understand the voices
he was hearing and could even make out certain words like “snow” and “back.” Their perception of time was affected too,
hours seemed to stretch out or pass by in the blink of an eye. The voice he was hearing started to become
more direct and the message was clear - “turn back.” Mann was compelled to press on though, even
with the extremes of the Antarctic cold beginning to weigh on him. But then SCP-2764 suddenly vanished, flickering
out of existence, and the team was left with no choice but to follow the strange tentacle-like
tracks in the snow hoping they would lead to the creature. The tracks lead them back to their old tent,
the same one they had left the tissue analyzer at before, which should have been impossible
based on the time and distance they had walked. Just then Commander Mann realized that he
had been wrong. They were the ones who had been pursued. They hadn’t been following the tracks forward,
but backwards to where they had been. Even worse, he realized that his team had
disappeared. He was completely alone. Commander Mann continued to trudge through
the snow, walking without direction, when he spotted SCP-2764 again. It was circling him, trying to maintain its
distance, but he raced towards the creature and sliced off a piece of its flesh for analysis. Something strange happened when he placed
it in the analyzer though. The machine displayed a “zero,” which
was the reading for human tissue. This strange result required further analysis
from the Foundation researchers who should now have arrived to take over the investigation,
so Mann began to make his way back in the direction of home. He spotted what looked to be members of his
team off in the distance and assumed that they must be on a mission to rescue him. Try as he might though, the spatial anomalies
prevented him from ever getting closer, it felt like it would take him an entire day
just to walk a few feet. He assumed it must be the same for his rescuers
as he watched them off in the distance, seeming to never get closer. At one point he could even see as they stopped
and turned back, appearing to return to an old campsite. He couldn’t understand what they were doing,
but then they disappeared entirely, only to reappear much closer to him. Commander Mann, now sure that there was something
terribly wrong happening, tried to approach the now single rescuer he could see to tell
him to turn back, but before he could, the man rushed at him with a knife, and cut a
piece of flesh from his back. It’s at that point that Commander Mann finally
starts to understand. He hadn’t been watching a rescue team come
for him, he’d been watching himself. He had been walking towards the creature,
and yet at the same time he had also always been the creature. Commander Mann was trapped in a time loop
where he was doomed to transform into the monstrous SCP-2764 and then watch himself
meet the same fate over and over again… forever. The voices he had been hearing telling him
to turn back were his own, words of warning that he was doomed to always ignore. SCP-2764 has been classified as Keter and
is currently located in a classified area of Antarctica. A 150 kilometer radius has been established
around the object which is to be monitored at all times by Mobile Task Force Eta-5. Any civilians that come within the 150 kilometer
radius either by accident, or due to SCP-2764 flickering to a populated area, are to be
administered Class- A amnestics and any civilians that may have knowledge of the event are to
be administered Class-B amnestics. Should any civilian or Foundation employees
come within 30 kilometers of SCP-2764, they are to be detained and immediately questioned. Following their psychological examination
and depending on the results of the evaluation, they will either be administered Class-A amnestics…
or terminated. Now go and watch another entry from the files
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